The Word every day: 26 January-1 February, 2025
Commentary on the Readings of the Day by Father Giordano Favillini
Sunday 26/01
Luke 1:21
Jesus began to say to them, ‘Today this scripture you have heard has been fulfilled’. Jesus defines who God is and what he does and means for the world and the humanity that inhabits it. Outside of Jesus any discourse on God’s identity is fantasy or fatuous imagination.
Monday 27/01
Mark 3:27
No one can enter the house of a strong man and kidnap his possessions unless he first binds him. By strong man is meant Satan. Only Jesus has the power to bind him, to neutralise him. The solution is to be united with Jesus.
Tuesday 28/01
Mark 3:35
He who does the will of God is brother and sister and mother to me. Brother and sister in that one becomes a child of God in Jesus who is a son and mother because whoever is with Jesus generates new life and fraternity in the world.
Wednesday 29/01
Mark 4:2
Jesus taught them many things, with parables, and said to them in his teaching: ‘Listen, behold, the sower went out to sow’. The sower is Jesus, he continues to sow even today his word using people, events both beautiful and less beautiful, nature, everything is in knowing how to listen with an open heart and mind.
Thursday 30/01
Mark 4:22
For there is nothing secret that need not be made manifest and nothing hidden that need not be brought to light. God sees everything about us and knows intimately who we are and what is in our hearts. All that remains is for us to trust and entrust ourselves totally to Him and that He never tires of us.
Friday 31/01
Mark 4:26
Jesus said to the crowd: ‘Thus is the kingdom of God like a man who sows seed on the ground, whether he sleeps or wakes by night or day, the seed sprouts and grows. Everyone has their own time to discover the presence of God. It is the desire for beauty, goodness and truth. But space is not always given to these desires, to that inner call that opens us to the reality of the invisible.
Saturday 1/02
Mark 4: 38 and 39
‘Master do you not care that we are lost?’
He arose, threatened the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Be quiet, calm down!’
The wind and the threatening sea are symbols of fears, overwhelming anxieties, despair and unbearable adversity. Only Jesus can bring us out and give us peace, to him we ask for help.